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Sarah Perin 1812-1906

PERIN, NIXON, GIVEN

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:30

3 July 1906 - The Tipton Advertiser

Was Oldest Resident of Iowa--Settled in Clinton in 1837

Mrs. Sarah G. Perin, aged nearly 96, and for seventy years a resident of Iowa, died at her home here this morning of a complication of ills and old age. She is said to have been the oldest resident of Iowa. She came from a noted family, her grandfather, John Nixon, being the first man to read the declaration of Independence in public in Independence square in 1776 in Philadelphia. She settled with her husband on the present site of Clinton in 1837. She was born in Trenton, N.J., in 1812. She was related to many of the pioneer families of Iowa by marriage, a granddaughter being married to Welker Given, a son of Judge Josiah Given of Des Moines.

Mrs. Perin came with her husband and several small children to the site of the future town of Clinton, March 30, 1837. She came by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Cincinati to that portion of the future Iowa then known as "West Wisconsin" although it was at that time a part of Michigan, the territory of Wisconsin not then being organized to claim it as it did afterwards for a short time. Taking up her home on the banks of the Mississippi near the Iowa end of the present Northwestern railroad bridge and near where the famous Clinton lumber mills were established long afterwards, Mrs. Perin while remaining under the same roof, was a resident in succession of Michigan, Wisconsin territory, the territory of Iowa, and finally of the state of Iowa. Her late home in Clinton is only a few blocks from the first one. She was related to G. W. Dutton of this place.


 

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